by Gina Beavers, Dave Eisenstadter, and Chris Goudreau | Jul 3, 2018 | Articles, Newsletter, Staff Picks
Rocky Horror Picture Show // SATURDAY, July 7 In 1975 something amazing happened: Rocky Horror Picture Show burst on the scene and life would never be the same again – especially for college kids who want to throw toast and toilet paper. On top it all, The Come Again...
by Advocate Staff | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured, News, Newsletter, Podcast
Dara Herman Zierlein made a choice to have an affect on the planet by eliminating plastic from her life. Even despite that decision, she sometimes does use plastic. But she holds onto it rather than throwing it away or recycling. She says that only about 9 percent of...
by Rob Brezsny | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured, Newsletter, Wellness
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to...
by Valley Advocate Staff | Jun 29, 2018 | Articles, Music, Valley Advocate Sessions
Asia Mei is a Northampton-based singer-songwriter and virtuoso pianist with a dash of 1990s alt rock. Her complete Valley Advocate Sessions performance is available for viewing in the video below. Interview with Asia Mei:
by Gina Beavers and Chris Goudreau | Jun 27, 2018 | Articles, Columns, Newsletter
A county coroner in Kentucky has been accused of working with at least two others — a retired police colonel and a current state police trooper — of illegally transporting a number of items. The most serious appeared to be $40,000 worth of illegally obtained weapons...